Chapter 137 The Journey Home
Thirty-three-year-old Hong Siyu once forgot the word "miracle".
Just as she had hoped when she was a student, she became an ordinary employee, working in an unfamiliar city.
Of course, although she is an employee, the place where she works is actually a little bit special. It is not an ordinary private enterprise or institution, but a special policy bureau.
When she was twenty-two years old, she ran away from Fangting City.
After graduating from university and getting her diploma, she left the city without even saying goodbye to her teammates. She just sent a group message and disappeared silently at the port.
She did not attend Anya and Lin Yun's wedding, nor did she attend the full moon ceremony of their child.
This was not her original intention. She had been trying hard to maintain a smooth relationship with Anya, but she finally found that she couldn't do it. So she had to run away, and she fled to a city where no one knew her and she didn't know anyone else.
She went to Tiandu City, the central city farthest from Fangting City in Donghua Province, registered there and spent the rest of her life as a magical girl.
Later, Anya called her several times, hoping that Hong Si would return to Fangting City, but she just politely declined.
Anya did nothing wrong, she just pursued her love and got a response. She could have ignored herself in this matter because she was not the one who was right.
This is what Hong Siyu thought.
She knew that Anya was a person who seemed confused but was actually sensitive. Her tolerance and gentleness towards her friends were also the reasons why Anya could become the captain of the Fangting City team. Even though Hong Siyu's attitude towards this matter was so bad, she still hoped to repair their relationship.
In contrast, her performance in this matter was so heartless that Hong Siyu felt that even she herself was disappointed with her behavior.
But she really couldn't do it.
Perhaps it is for this reason that she has never been able to make any breakthroughs in her ability development and has always remained at the bud level. After all, her wish when she became a magical girl was to become happy.
Later, Hong Siyu had a fixed residence in Tiandu City, and took her mother there to settle down completely. After the ten-year term of the magic girl was over, she chose to retire and then joined the General Office of the Abnormal Policy Bureau of Tiandu City. Except for going home with her mother during the holidays to meet those unfamiliar relatives, Fangting City completely disappeared from her life.
Later, her mother passed away and she never returned to Fangting City.
Anya still calls from time to time, and Hongsi will occasionally answer the call to listen to her tell her what happened in Fangting City.
After getting married, Anya's personality was obviously more mature than when she was young. Although she still made irrelevant mistakes, she was much more knowledgeable about the ways of the world. She would tell Hong Si and Fang Ting City about the new members of the team, and even deliberately introduce them to Hong Si and Fang Ting City, but she would not mention asking them to go back, and only expressed her thoughts silently.
Hong Siyu did not give any response in this regard, as if she did not hear Anya's hidden meaning.
And so, time passed, until one day, Anya stopped calling her.
At first, she felt relieved, thinking that Anya had finally given up her useless persuasion and let go of the past. But soon, a piece of news from the inside of the Strategy Bureau made her stunned.
——The strongest karuta of the magic kingdom, Sakura, has sacrificed herself.
The moment she learned of Anya's death, she didn't even know how to describe her feelings.
Was she happy? Was she relaxed? Was she satisfied? She couldn't deny that these feelings, which made her feel self-loathing, overflowed from her heart uncontrollably at that moment.
The object of my jealousy and avoidance for so many years just disappeared from the world.
But she knew that this dark thought was not the whole story.
After that, she took the initiative to apply to the headquarters of the Abnormal Policy Bureau of Tiandu City, wanting to be transferred to Fangting City, to assist in the training and liaison work of young magical girls while investigating the cause of Anya's death.
The General Administration agreed to her request and sent her back to Fangting City.
This also means that after many years, she can finally see the person she cares about and likes again.
How should I face my seniors? Thinking this way, she couldn't wait to go to Anya and Lin Yun's home on the first day after returning to Fangting City. In the end, she saw Lin Yun as she wished.
But she never thought that the Lin Yun she saw again would be like that.
He was a thin middle-aged man with no spirit in his eyes and untidy beard. His clothes were still neat and tidy, but no matter how well-dressed he was, he couldn't straighten a man's spirit. He looked so vicissitudes and lost that Hong Siyu couldn't even find a trace of his past in this man.
He is no longer the handsome young man he used to be.
Even when he saw me, he didn't have any special reaction, he just simply greeted me.
Is this the man whom she has been thinking about for so many years, who fled to another city and lived like an ostrich for so many years, and now she has to rush back to see him? At that moment, Hong Siyu only felt absurd.
However, the next sentence the man in front of her said made her feel as if something was pulling at her heart.
"Go back to your own life."
He stood at the door, his dark eyes showing no emotion: "Don't get involved in this matter. There is nothing here worth your nostalgia."
Hong Siyu didn't know what the man in front of her was thinking when he said this, but after hearing this, she felt that she had to do something.
Whether it is for him or for myself, I should do something.
But what can she do?
She herself was just a coward, a poor bastard, an idiot who had fled to a strange city and hid for eleven years because the man she loved had married someone else. What could she do for the man in front of her? She had always been bad at speaking and interacting with others. Her personality traits determined that she would not be someone who could enlighten others.
At the age of 33, she no longer had the youth of a girl, the power of a magical girl, and the ties with her past companions. She stood there, but she and the man in front of her were no longer the same kind of people. He was an innocent citizen whose wife was murdered, and she was an official employee of the Strategy Bureau.
There had never been a moment when she felt so far away from this man.
The passing of time has alienated everything silently. All the former innocence, beauty, youthfulness and ignorance are gone forever. What is left are two people who have been alienated by life, looking so unbearable and ugly.
Miracles and magic once embraced them, but for some reason they failed to leave even the slightest trace on them. The brilliant and shining life of a magical girl seemed like a dream. After the dream ended, only a pile of residue remained in reality.
It shouldn't be like this.
Hong Siyu thinks so.
She knew that the man in front of her had once obtained the rights of a "lifelong magical girl". Even though he was seriously injured that year and could no longer exert that kind of power, he still possessed the fire of miracles.
He shouldn't be like this, he can't be like this.
But, can someone like me who is not good at speaking really convey my feelings well?
Is there any way to break through the barrier between the two of us and tell him loudly the words that I dare not and have never said?
Even she herself didn't know why, at that moment, she subconsciously chose a plan. She tried hard to put on a smile that she never had before, and said to the man in a rather generous manner: "What? You are obviously meeting a junior whom you haven't seen for many years, why do you have to look so sad?"
She was not the type to smile like that, nor was she the type to say such words. She was always used to keeping her thoughts to herself. But now, she was forcing herself to speak out, to speak out honestly like someone else.
Because she knew that she had always envied that person.
She envied the man's honesty, optimism and persistence. ...
That's why she can successfully get her love and be with this man.
If it were her, what would she say when she saw her husband become like this? If it were her, what would she think when she knew that she was dead? If it were her, what would she do when she wanted to encourage someone?
As he pondered and thought about it, Hong Siyu began to laugh, make noises, and joke around.
She knew who she was imitating.
She actually didn't want that person to die at all. Even though it was because of her death that she had the chance to stand here, if possible, she would rather have that person stay here.
But at this point, the lost life can no longer be saved, and all she can do is imitate.
She wanted to be Anya.
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Thirty-three-year-old Hong Siyu wants to find miracles again.
If she wants to find a miracle and bring back Lin Yun's spirit, she must first find out the cause of Anya's death.
The Fangting City team 18 years ago has become history, and the magic girls stationed in Fangting City have left to track down the real murderer. As the only person left in the city, many tasks are placed on Hong Siyu.
She is responsible for connecting with the local Strategy Bureau; she is to assist the next sower in training new magical girls; she is to investigate what happened before Anya's death. To do this, she has to contact the local Strategy Bureau.
After conducting remote negotiations with local senior officials and booking a time, she went to the local Strategy Bureau building during the day on the second day.
After returning from Tiandu City and seeing the grandeur of the headquarters of the Bureau of Strategy, Hong Si was surprised to find that the Bureau of Strategy, which used to be so grand and magnificent in her memory, now seemed to be just an ordinary building.
Walking through the halls of the building, there seemed to be a few familiar faces among the employees of the Strategy Bureau coming and going. Perhaps he had met them more than ten years ago, but Hong Siyu could no longer remember them at all.
However, among those new faces, many people noticed Hong Siyu and kept looking at her while walking.
For some reason, these gazes made Hong Siyu feel subtly uncomfortable.
It didn't seem to be the look of examining a colleague, nor the look of sizing up a member of the opposite sex. There seemed to be something else hidden in it, an inexplicable malice.
But she didn't care too much, she just quickened her pace and left those people's sight, then shook her head to get rid of the discomfort. She went up from the elevator, passed through the busy crowd, and quickly walked to the door of the director's office. She knocked on the door gently, and after waiting for a while, she heard a voice from inside the door:
"Come in."
When Hong Siyu walked in, he saw a capable and somewhat old blonde woman sitting in the office, smiling and nodding at him.
"Nice to meet you. My name is Moss."
She said politely, "Hello, comrade from Tiandu City."
Perhaps because of the detailed actions and tone of voice, her words made people feel like a spring breeze.
She was not the director of the Strategy Bureau in Hong Siyu's memory. When Hong Siyu left Fangting City eleven years ago, the director here was still an old bald man with a Mediterranean complexion.
It must be a replacement.
Hong Siyu had no doubts and walked up to shake hands with the other party: "Hello, I am Hong Siyu."
"Thank you for coming to help. It is a great honor for our Fangting City."
The elderly lady who called herself Moss said this, gently shook her hand that was clasped with Hong Siyu, and then gently let go: "I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation in the future."
Hong Siyu saw her hands, which looked white and smooth, inconsistent with Moss's age.
This lady seems to be very good at maintenance.
She thought so, but at the same time, she began to feel that something was wrong.
The two of them sat down face to face on both sides of the desk. After a short break, Moss spoke first: "Well, although it's a bit presumptuous to ask this, I still want to confirm first, did your superiors assign you any mission when you came to our Fangting City?"
Her tone was very calm, but Hong Siyu felt a subtle sense of discomfort. She began to constantly examine and think about everything around her, but still could not find the source of this discomfort.
But this is the Strategy Bureau. What could be happening in broad daylight that could make you feel so uncomfortable?
"Sorry, I can't reveal this for now."
Thinking this in his heart, Hong Si shook his head on the surface and said politely to the other party: "But this is just a requirement of the mission. I will tell you when the time is right."
"Is that so? Then I won't force you."
Moss smiled kindly and said, "I wish the General Administration's secret mission can be successfully completed. If you need it, we will be able to assist you in your work at any time."
The two of them chatted aimlessly like this. Moss asked Hong Siyu some irrelevant questions from time to time, and Hong Siyu chose her words carefully and gave answers as cautiously as possible.
But slowly, as time went by, Hong Siyu felt more and more uncomfortable.
This uncomfortable feeling is hard to describe. It was like someone was tickling her inside with a feather. A feeling of numbness and pain kept spreading from her arms, making it gradually difficult for her to concentrate.
She began to feel dizzy.
There seemed to be something making noises in her head, rustling and clicking, as if it was traveling through her brain, disturbing her, making her feel increasingly groggy.
"Speaking of which, I've heard a rumor before that there are many retired magical girls in the Strategy Bureau in big cities like Tiandu. Miss Hong, have you heard about this?"
Moss suddenly mentioned this topic, looked at Hong Siyu with interest and said, "This is an interesting rumor, right?"
It seems like I should answer the question myself.
Hong Siyu told herself this.
But at this moment, she found that she could no longer speak. Her body seemed to be no longer under her control, and her consciousness seemed to have left her body and was split into two.
She began to feel her vision darken.
So... strange...
She began to feel her brain spinning.
What happened to me? She began to feel her body getting lighter.
who I am?
She began to feel the urge to fly.
She raised her hand with great effort and touched the inside of her coat, where the weapons that the General Administration of the Bureau of Strategy had equipped its subordinates with were hidden. They could allow ordinary people who did not master magic to fight against magicians. Hong Siyu tried to take it out because she felt that she had met an enemy.
But she couldn't do it anymore.
His standing legs were too weak to support his body, and his weak feet did not have the strength to walk forward. Hong Siyu fell sideways from the seat and fell heavily to the ground.
When she was half conscious, she seemed to see Moss stand up from behind the desk, walk in front of her, and then slowly extend her hand to her.
The picture froze at that moment.
A moth was quietly resting on the fingertips of that hand.
(End of this chapter)
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